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Composer and conductor Tania León

5 Questions to Tania León (composer, Composers Now)

Cuban-born composer, conductor, and educator Tania León founded Composers Now in 2010 to celebrate a...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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5 Questions to thingNY (composer/performer collective)

Three years of work will unfold when the artist collective thingNY premieres their new opera This Ta...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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5 Questions to Ian Ding (New Music Detroit, percussionist)

There’s a resurgent arts scene in Detroit, and New Music Detroit is in the heart of it. NMD presents...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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5 Questions to Ben Folds (composer)

Ben Folds is a singer-songwriter and record producer known mostly for his solo work and his early ro...
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Sam Reising
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5 Questions to Christopher Rountree

wild Up is described in most reviews as a contemporary classical ensemble, but Artistic Director Chr...
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Gavin Gamboa
Ted Hearne--Photo by Nathan Lee Bush

5 Questions to Ted Hearne (composer)

Composer, singer, and bandleader Ted Hearne is one sixth of the composer collective Sleeping Giant a...
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Amanda Cook
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5 Questions to Nathalie Joachim (eighth blackbird, Flutronix)

Flutist and composer Nathalie Joachim, perhaps best known as half of the funky genre-blurring duo Fl...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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5 Questions to Petr Kotik (composer)

Petr Kotik is the founder and artistic director of the biennial Ostrava Days which includes a three-...
Author
Lana Norris
Chris McMurtry - Photo by Jonathan Jones

5 questions to Chris McMurtry (CEO of DART)

Chris McMurtry is a classical composer, rock guitarist, and technologist. Like others in the music i...
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Thomas Deneuville
Gabriela Lena Frank (photo: Sabina Frank)

5 Questions to Gabriela Lena Frank (composer)

Composer and pianist Gabriela Lena Frank is as busy as she can imagine being. She has just completed...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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5 Questions to Gregg Kallor (composer, pianist)

Composer-pianist Gregg Kallor is completing the first of a two-season residency at New York CityR...
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Christian Kriegeskotte
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5 Questions to Ilari Kaila (composer)

Ilari Kaila is a Finnish-born composer, based in Hong Kong and with strong ties in New York City. He...
Author
Lana Norris
George Lewis

5 Questions to George Lewis (composer, improvisor, trombonist)

Composer and historian George Lewis is the Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music at Columbia Uni...
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Lana Norris
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5 Questions to Úlfur Hansson (composer)

Úlfur Hansson is an Icelandic composer and musician currently based in California. His latest work I...
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Joanne Lam
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5 Questions to Steven Schick (2015 Ojai Music Director)

Keeping up with 2015 Ojai Festival Music Director Steven Schick is no easy task. Schick leads a mult...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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5 Questions to Mary Kouyoumdjian (composer)

Composer Mary Kouyoumdjian has just returned from Armenia where she joined in the observance of the...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Patrick Castillo

5 Questions to Patrick Castillo (American Composers Forum)

Brooklyn-based composer Patrick Castillo is the vice-chair of the board of directors for the America...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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5 Questions to Renée Baker (composer, conductor)

Composer and conductor Renée Baker is a dynamic force in the creative music scene in Chicago. She ha...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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5 Questions to Maya Beiser (cellist)

Cellist Maya Beiser has captivated audiences all over the world by reimagining the sonic possibiliti...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Robert Ashley

5 Questions to Tom Hamilton, Gelsey Bell, Dave Ruder (Crash)

Roulette will present Robert Ashley’s final opera Crash, in Brooklyn, New York, April 15-18, 2015. T...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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5 Questions to Joseph Dangerfield (composer)

Joseph Dangerfield has lived and worked professionally as a composer, conductor, and pianist in Germ...
Author
Amanda Cook
Lisa Dowling - Photo credit: Tasja Keetman

5 Questions to Lisa Dowling (bassist/vocalist/songwriter) about Kills to Kisses

We had already met bassist, vocalist, and songwriter Lisa Dowling (currently on the cover of Issue 1...
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Thomas Deneuville
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5 Questions to Maria Finkelmeier (Percussionist) about @improvaday

One of the freshest things I’ve seen on Instagram lately is Maria Finkelmeier‘s @improva...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Wu Man

5 Questions to Wu Man (pipa virtuoso, cultural ambassador)

Pipa virtuoso and cultural ambassador of music from China Wu Man has an active career as a soloist,...
Author
Arlene & Larry Dunn
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